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Mike Hagman is Senior Director of Product Management at Inseego, where he leads strategy and innovation for the company’s 5G solutions. With prior leadership roles at Ericsson and Cradlepoint, Mike brings deep expertise across the wireless market, spanning both enterprise and consumer segments. He has built a career at the forefront of connectivity, helping organizations harness next-generation networks to unlock new opportunities and deliver value at scale.
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I am a long time data center denizen who currently focuses on storage and storage related issues. I have worked on both sides of the fence, for vendors as well as being the guy who had to impliment what they sold me. Finally, I've managed teams of UNIX, Windows, and Storage Admins.
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Paul Hammond is Chief Product & Technology Officer at Exclaimer, where he leads global product strategy, engineering, and innovation to drive the company’s next phase of growth in brand-safe digital communication solutions. In this role he oversees the delivery of world-class products that help organisations govern and scale consistent, compliant communications across email and meeting channels.
With 20+ years of experience in product and technology leadership, Paul combines deep technical expertise with a strong focus on user-centered design and high-performing engineering cultures. Prior to joining Exclaimer, he held senior leadership roles at companies including Native Instruments, Zoopla, eBay and Microsoft, shaping product roadmap, building cross-functional teams, and delivering products used by millions globally.
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Jaime Hampton is a technology journalist and editor covering artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, big data, scientific computing, AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and enterprise technology. She spent more than four years at Tabor Communications, progressing from Associate Editor to Staff Writer to Managing Editor, and most recently served as Managing Editor of AIwire and Contributing Editor at HPCwire through May 2026. Since then, she has worked as an independent freelance journalist and editor, reporting on and editing coverage across the same core beats: AI, high-performance computing, scientific computing, AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and enterprise technology. Hampton holds a B.A. in Art History, Criticism and Conservation from New College of Florida and previously worked as a curatorial intern at The Ringling museum in Sarasota. She is based in St. Petersburg, Florida. At Techstrong Group, Hampton contributes technology journalism to Security Boulevard, Techstrong.ai, and Techstrong IT, covering cybersecurity developments, AI-integrated security solutions, and high-performance computing and enterprise infrastructure topics.
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Nikhil Handigol is a co-founder of Forward Networks, a groundbreaking technology provider of "network digital twin" software that enables large enterprises to achieve reliable, agile, and secure networks. Before starting Forward Networks, Handigol earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he and his colleagues built the foundational pieces of Software-Defined Networking. His research at Stanford focused on using SDN principles for network troubleshooting, network emulation, and load-balancing. Handigol has received the Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award 2025, the AsiaOne Most Influential Young Leaders Award 2020-21 and the IIT Madras Young Alumni Achiever Award 2022 for his contributions to the networking industry.
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With over 20 years working in the IT industry I have had varied sub careers. My first decade was as a programmer, developing applications in CASE tools for major corporations in Asia. There was the obligatory dotcom involvement in a start up. For the last decade I have worked in the systems integration space as a consultant. Today my focus and passion is on Cloud and virtualisation. I spend my time doing strategy, evangelism and architecture.
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Calvin Hendryx-Parker is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, a Python development and Cloud consulting company established in 1999. At Six Feet Up, Calvin establishes the company’s technical vision and leads all aspects of the company’s technology development. He provides the strategic vision for enhancing the offerings of the company and infrastructure, and works with the team to set company priorities and implement processes that will help improve product and service development. Calvin is the driving force behind LoudSwarm, a truly immersive virtual event platform that debuted in June 2020.
Calvin is the co-founder of the Python user group IndyPy, the largest tech meetup in Indiana with 1,900+ members. In 2017, he also founded IndyAWS, now the fastest growing cloud meetup in the state with 800+ members. In 2019, he got recognized as an AWS Community Hero by AWS experts.
Outside of work, Calvin spends time tinkering with new devices like the AWS DeepRacer, CircuitPython and Raspberry Pi. Calvin is an avid distance runner and ran the 2014 NYC Marathon to support the Innocence Project. Every year he and the family enjoys an extended trip to France where his wife Gabrielle, the CEO of Six Feet Up, is from. Calvin holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University.
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Benjamin Henry is a Field CTO at Komprise, focused on helping enterprises build the business case for data management and turn storage cost transparency into action.
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Ben spearheads SUSE's strategic growth initiatives across the A/NZ region with a focus on helping organisations unlock much greater value from their IT platforms, continue to lower their operating and infrastructure costs, simplify the every increasing complexity of hybrid and multi cloud software infrastructures and strengthen the operating resiliency against cybersecurity threats.
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John has worked in the networking industry for over 20 years, and obtained his CCIE Routing & Switching in early 2001. A network engineer by day, he has consulted in the UK and USA for Internet and mobile service providers, financial, retail and other enterprise customers, designing, supporting and troubleshooting networks of all sizes and types. He now works in the enterprise space, enjoying knowing where he’ll be located every week and that he’ll be home for dinner.
John blogs at http://movingpackets.net/ where he shares his thoughts and experiences with automation, scripting, best practices, commonly needed solutions, technical challenges and whatever else interests him in the networking and technology arena.
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Vice President and Practice Lead, CIO Insights at Futurum Group
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Rahul Hirani is the Chief Product Officer at NinjaOne. With more than 15 years of experience in product strategy and development, Hirani joined NinjaOne in 2021 as SVP, Product Management. As CPO, Hirani leads NinjaOne’s technology and innovation teams, overseeing software engineering, platform engineering, and architecture. Prior to NinjaOne, Hirani held roles as VP of Product Management at data security and governance platform Cyral (acquired by Varonis), was the Head of Data Products at Duo Security (acquired by Cisco Systems), and served as Director of Product at Node.io (acquired by SugarCRM). He is also a published author in econometrics and has an academic background in computational statistics.
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im Hirschauer is the Head of Product Marketing for Xurrent, the modern service management platform. Jim spent 15 years in IT operations in various roles ranging from Systems Administrator to IT Architect. For the past few years, Jim has been focused on improving process workflows and automations that deliver consistent and reliable results. With the recent advances in AI technology, Jim has been exploring how enterprises can gain real-world efficiencies using secure AI technologies. Jim is an award-winning speaker having been the recipient of the J. William Mullen Award for both technical excellence and an engaging presentation style.
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Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day. His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/
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Ed Horley has spent over 20 years in tech, and is known as the “Crazy IPv6 dude”, co-chair California IPv6 Task Force, author (Apress and Pluralsight), blogger and occasional speaker.
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Marc Hornbeek, a.k.a., DevOps-the-Gray, is CEO and Principal Consultant at Engineering DevOps Consulting , author of the book "Engineering DevOps" , and Ambassador of The DevOps Institute.
Marc is a specialist / expert at applying a deep knowledge of engineering practices to DevOps, QA, DevSecOps and SRE transformations. Marc applies his unique, comprehensive Engineering Blueprints, Seven-Step DevOps Transformation Blueprint and Nine Pillars of DevOps / QE / DevSecOps / SRE discovery and assessment tools, together with targeted workshops to create actionable and comprehensive DevOps transformation roadmaps and strategic plans. Marc is an IEEE Outstanding Engineer, and 47-year Life Member of IEEE. He is a DevOps leadership advisor/mentor. He is the original author of the DevOps Engineering Foundation, Continuous Delivery Ecosystem Foundation (CDEF) and Continuous Test Foundation (CTF) certification courses that are offered by global training partners of the DevOps Institute. He is a Blogger on DevOps.com, CloudNativeNow.com, and SeurityBlvd.com. He is a freelance writer of DevOps content including eBooks, webinars, and white papers. . His education includes engineering and executive business degrees and nine certifications from the DevOps Institute.
Email Marc for DevOps / QE / DevSecOps / SRE consulting, training, writing and speaking engagements at [email protected], call him at +1 805 908 5789 or use this link to book a live 20 minute chat. https://calendly.com/engineeringdevops/devopschat
Tricia Howard
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A Native Texan now living in the magnificent New York City, Tricia Howard is an artist gone rogue who ended up in the wonderful world of security. With a B.A. in Theatre Arts and interests ranging from Star Wars to Opera, she brings a unique and artistic perspective to the security world. When she’s not creating content, jigsaw puzzling, doing stand-up comedy, or protecting her Pomsky, Darth, you can find her at HolistiCyber. She is currently the Marketing Manager where she brings awareness to the nation-state threat across the digital landscape.
Jennifer Huber
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George V. Hulme is an internationally recognized information security and business technology writer. For more than 20 years Hulme has written about business, technology, and IT security topics. From March 2000 through March 2005, as senior editor at InformationWeek magazine, he covered the IT security and homeland security beats. His work has appeared in CSOOnline, ComputerWorld, Network Computing, Government Computer News, Network World, San Francisco Examiner, TechWeb, VARBusiness, and dozens of other technology publications.
